Fancies Quotes

What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has or, fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles. - Arthur Schopenhauer

We can predict that in the future, the borders of independent nations will be breached at the whims and fancies of the superpowers. - Mahathir Mohamad

To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions. - George Santayana

Thoughts hardly to be packed / Into a narrow act, / Fancies that broke through language and escaped. - Robert Browning

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. - Aristotle

This years fancies are passing fancies but sighing sighs, holding hands. These my heart understands. - Beegie Adair

There is no rustic so rude but that, if he dreams or fancies anything, it must be the whisper of the Holy Ghost, and he himself a prophet. - Martin Luther

The vulgar mind fancies that good judgment is implied chiefly in the capacity to censure; and yet there is no judgment so exquisite as that which knows properly how to approve. - Walter Gilmore Simms

The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it. - Horace Greeley

Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of. - Victor Hugo